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Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.
- Zimmermann, Johann Georg
Humor Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Humor

1.
What some people invent the rest enlarge.
Swift, Jonathan

2.
There's nothing like a gleam of humor to reassure you that a fellow human being is ticking inside a strange face.
Eva Hoffman

3.
The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
Horace Walpole

4.
Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
Peter Ustinov

5.
I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.
Albee, Edward

6.
Burt Reynolds once asked me out. I was in his room.
Diller, Phyllis

7.
Life is tough, and if you have the ability to laugh at it you have the ability to enjoy it.
Salma Hayek

8.
Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here.
Truman, Harry S

9.
Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place.
Mark Twain

10.
A joke was not a single-use item but something you brought out again and again until it fell apart in your hand like a cheap umbrella.
David Nicholls

11.
The secret to humor is surprise.
Aristotle

12.
A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.
Herold, Don

13.
Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears.
Colton, Charles Caleb

14.
I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.
Nelson, Lord

15.
To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.
Burgess, (Frank) Gelett

16.
Comedy is a tragedy plus time.
Burnett, Carol

17.
One should never risk a joke, even of the mildest and most unexceptional charters, except among people of culture and wit.
La Bruyere, Jean De

18.
Even the gods love jokes.
Plato

19.
Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.
Trilling, Lionel

20.
Comedy may be big business but it isn't pretty.
Martin, Steve

21.
Fortune and humor govern the world.
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

22.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
Mel Brooks

23.
Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.
Martin, Steve

24.
They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.
Hemingway, Ernest

25.
There is this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means; draw it all out, and hold him to it.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

26.
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.
James Thurber

27.
That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.
A. Whitney Brown

28.
Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.
Muir, Frank

29.
I am a great friend to public amusements, for they keep the people from vice.
Johnson, Samuel

30.
A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never ceased to be amused.
Maclaine, Shirley

31.
Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important.
Wittgenstein, Ludwig

32.
The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.
James Thurber

33.
Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.
Robert Benchley

34.
We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Bonaparte, Napoleon

35.
Be simple in words, manners, and gestures. Amuse as well as instruct. If you can make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believe you.
Smith, Alfred E.

36.
Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun.
Wilson, Flip

37.
There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray.
Joubert, Joseph

38.
Humor -- the perfect relationship of the parts to the whole.

39.
Humor has been a fashioning instrument in America, cleaving its way through the national life, holding tenaciously to the spread elements of that life. Its mode has often been swift and coarse and ruthless, beyond art and beyond established civilization. It has engaged in warfare against the established heritage, against the bonds of pioneer existence. Its objective --the unconscious objective of a disunited people --has seemed to be that of creating fresh bonds, a new unity, the semblance of a society and the rounded completion of an American type.
Rourke, Constance

40.
Where ever you find humor, you find pathos close by it side.
Whipple, Edwin P.

41.
We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers.
Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

42.
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs-jolted by every pebble in the road.
Beecher, Henry Ward

43.
Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.
Pico Iyer

44.
Any discussion of the problems of being funny in America will not make sense unless we substitute the word wit for humor. Humor inspires sympathetic good-natured laughter and is favored by the healing-power gang. Wit goes for the jugular, not the jocular, and it's the opposite of football; instead of building character, it tears it down.
King, Florence

45.
Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.
Sondheim, Stephen

46.
The right honorable gentlemen is indebted to his memory for his jokes and his imagination for his facts.
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

47.
The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.
Eco, Umberto

48.
Isn't it sad how some people can't be funny, so they have to settle for being obnoxious?

49.
A poor joke must invent its own laughter.
Proverb, Latin

50.
Humor, a good sense of it, is to Americans what manhood is to Spaniards and we will go to great lengths to prove it. Experiments with laboratory rats have shown that, if one psychologist in the room laughs at something a rat does, all of the other psychologists in the room will laugh equally. Nobody wants to be left holding the joke.
Keillor, Garrison


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